"Community in the American West brings together writers and photographers, poets and essayists, to explore historical and contemporary views of "community" in the American West."--BOOK JACKET. "Writers reject the tradition of judging western communities in terms of established values from the East and Europe, and they develop dimensions of the concept of community by studying such diverse settings and populations as the coal country of Colorado, the southern California suburbs, the gatherings of transients and "hoboes," and the lives of ethnic and cultural minorities."--Jacket.